Psychoanalysis and Architecture: The Inside and the Outside

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This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering exchange between inside and outside. The way in which psychoanalysts take care of mental suffering, and the way in which architects and city planners assess the environment, are grounded in a shared concern with the notion of 'dwelling'. It is a matter of fact that dwelling exists in a complex context comprised of both biological need and symbolic function. Psychoanalysis and architecture can work together in both thinking about and designing not only our homes but also the analyst's consulting rooms and, more generally, our therapy places. However, this is possible only if they renounce the current limited and restrictive model of this interaction, and propose one more that is more in harmony with the questions and situations that clients themselves pose. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION Entering and exiting PREFACE TO THE ITALIAN EDITION INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE The origins of a meeting CHAPTER TWO Fruitful contaminations CHAPTER THREE The metaphorical architecture of mind CHAPTER FOUR The space CHAPTER FIVE Architecture between past, present, and future CHAPTER SIX Continuity and discontinuity in psychoanalysis CHAPTER SEVEN The haste in the world around us CHAPTER EIGHT The uncanny CHAPTER NINE Psychoanalysis and architecture: the need for an interdisciplinary debate CHAPTER TEN The house CHAPTER ELEVEN Therapy places CHAPTER TWELVE The analyst's consulting room CHAPTER THIRTEEN Some notes and suggestions on a possible partnership between architects and psychoanalysts CONCLUDING REMARKS AFTERWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION NOTES REFERENCES INDEX